Hunted Horror
Creature — Horror
Trample
When this creature enters, target opponent creates two 3/3 green Centaur creature tokens with protection from black.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate
- Price
- $3.67
- EDHREC rank
- #4424
Hunted Horror drops a 7/7 trampler on turn two, which is the headline — the two 3/3 Centaur tokens it hands your opponent are the cost of admission. In decks built to punish opponents for having creatures, like those helmed by Kambal, Profiteering Mayor, that downside flips into a resource.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Kambal, Profiteering Mayor
Kambal, Profiteering Mayor taxes every creature entering under opponents' control, so the two free Centaurs from Hunted Horror immediately trigger his life-drain engine — the 'downside' becomes two free activations.
Captain N'ghathrod
Captain N'ghathrod wants a big, cheap Horror to crew attacks early, and Hunted Horror's Horror subtype plus its 7/7 body make it a natural fit for the mill-and-reanimate gameplan.
Abigale, Eloquent First-Year
Abigale, Eloquent First-Year cares about creatures entering opponents' battlefields, and Hunted Horror delivering two Centaurs on turn two is one of the most efficient ways to trigger that engine in the format.
The Gitrog, Ravenous Ride
The Gitrog, Ravenous Ride needs a massive creature to saddle and punch through, and Hunted Horror's 7/7 trample body is one of the cheapest ways to put that kind of power on the board in Golgari.
Kardur, Doomscourge
Kardur, Doomscourge wants opponents' creatures attacking into each other, and the two Centaurs gifted by Hunted Horror add to the chaos while leaving you holding a 7/7 that survives the carnage.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Hunted Horror does its best work, specifically in black decks built to exploit creature tokens entering opponents' battlefields — the two Centaurs are a liability in most contexts but a designed synergy piece in the right shell. In Legacy, Hunted Horror has seen fringe play as a fast clock in reanimator-adjacent strategies, though the token drawback is a genuine liability against creature-based combo decks. Modern is legal but rarely used; the format's removal density and the raw danger of free 3/3s make it a poor fit outside narrow builds. Vintage and Oathbreaker are legal but Hunted Horror finds no natural home in either — the card's identity is too narrow for Vintage's raw power environment and too parasitic for most Oathbreaker piles.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$3.67 cheap tier
At $3.67, Hunted Horror sits in the cheap tier — accessible enough that there's no reason to play around it if it fits your build. It's a narrow enough card that demand stays tied directly to Kambal and similar commanders, so price movement follows those decks' popularity rather than any broad appeal.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.